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The Fan Collection

The Company's collection of some 250 fans includes fine examples from the 18th. and 19th. centuries. Several have Royal provenance and were donated to the Company by HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone. Other donors include Past Master Bernard Ross Collins, Past Master Leslie Ross Collins, Past Master Noman Latchford and Mr. Liveryman John Brooker, the Company's only traditional fan maker.

A small selection of fans from the collection is featured here. Click on the thumbnail to enlarge the image.

	The Royal Autograph Fan. Chicken skin bearing signatures of various members of the Royal Family. Ivory sticks with Past Master's gold badge mounted on handle. Presented to the Company by Past Master Bernard Ross Collins in 1945.
Reverse	The Rape of the Sabines painted on chicken skin. 20 pierced and backed mother of pearl sticks. 12" high, circa 1750. Given to HRH Princess Alice by Queen Mary.
	Lace fan mounted on 16 mother of pearl sticks. Circa 1900. Given to HRH Princess Alice by Lady Morton
Reverse	Sacrifice to Diana painted on kid skin. 22 ivory sticks with carved guards. 10" high. English circa 1700
	Diana and her Nymphs painted on dark kid skin. 24 plain ivory gilt painted sticks, guardsticks carved and pierced. Leaf Italian, sticks possibly English. Early 18th. Century.
	Travellers possibly biblical scene painted on kid skin. 20 carved ivory sticks. Early 18th. Century.
	Parade at Bath painted and engraved on paper leaf. Beau Nash depicted in red coat. 21 plain ivory sticks. 11" high. English 1740.
	Worship of the Golden Calf painted on paper. 22 pierced and carved ivory sticks. English circa 1740

Copyright © 2001 The Worshipful Company of Fan Makers, Last modified: 29 October, 2001